César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández joined the Capital University Law School faculty in 2010 after serving as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law and practicing immigration law. His academic interests center on the intersection of criminal law and immigration law ("crImmigration"). He teaches a seminar on the topic and having published articles about the right to counsel, immigration imprisonment, and race-based immigration policing. In addition to teaching a crImmigration seminar, he teaches Criminal Procedure, Immigration and Naturalization, and Torts.

He publishes crImmigration.com, a blog about the convergence of criminal and immigration law. This month, editors of the ABA Journal listed crImmigration.com as one of the 100 best blogs for a legal audience.